Book Review:
Stephen A. Siegel, Let Us Now Praise Infamous Men (reviewing
Owen Fiss’s History of the Supreme Court of the United States:
Troubled Beginnings of the Modern State, 1888 – 1910
(1993)), 73 TEXAS L. REV. 661 (1995).
Abstract:
Professor Siegel reviews Fiss’s history of the Supreme Court
during the term that Melville Weston Fuller served as Chief
Justice, the period in which the Court handed down Plessy v.
Ferguson, Lockner v. New York, and other famous and infamous
decisions. Siegel believes the work to be a delightful history
of the period for the general reader, but suggests that
historians will find it the book to propound, though
comprehensively, what is currently the standard view of the
Fuller court, without breaking much new ground.